Remembrance Of Things Past Vols I-VII.

Cities of the Plain (Part V) [Volume I]

Plot

À la Recherche du Temps Perdu -- translated as In Search of Lost Time and previously translated as Remembrance of Things Past -- is a novel in seven volumes. It is generally considered to be Proust's most prominent work. It gained fame in English in translations by C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin as Remembrance of Things Past, but the title In Search of Lost Time, a literal rendering of the French, has gained usage since D. J. Enright adopted it for his revised translation published in 1992. In Search of Lost Time follows the narrator's recollections of childhood and experiences into adulthood during late 19th century to early 20th century aristocratic France, while reflecting on the loss of time and lack of meaning to the world. À la Recherche du Temps Perdu was published in France between 1913 and 1927. Proust paid for the publication of the first volume (by the Grasset publishing house) after it had been turned down by leading editors who had been offered the manuscript in longhand. Due to England's obscenity laws, the English publishing house of Chatto & Windus was unable to print Proust's fourth volume, "Sodom and Gomorrah." Albert Boni (pronounced "bone eye") came to the rescue and offered to publish C. K. Scott Moncrieff’s first English translation of "Cities of the Plain," in 1927. Albert and Charles Boni Publishers, New York, printed a limited edition of 2000, in a two volume set. Volume one of Cities on the Plain, part of Marcel Proust's monumental work 'Swann's Way,' that explores the nature of memory and time.